Contrary to the publicity on this book, it doesn't contain techniques "so easy that anyone from doodler to advanced artist can master in minutes." This is instead a highly challenging manual on achieving effects close to photographic with little more than a sharp pencil. Hillberry, an artist and teacher, offers splendid demonstrations on creating the look of metal, wood, hair, and even cracked glass.

You won't believe the incredible drawings you can create using common pencils and the special techniques illustrated in this book. The methods are so easy that anyone – from doodler to advanced artist – can master them in minutes! Step by step, you'll learn how to capture the look of metal, glass, weathered wood, skin, hair and other textures. Two detailed start-to-finish demonstrations show you how to use these textures to create drawings that look so real they leap right off the page!

This book teaches the reader an intuitive, seven step process for drawing realistic airplanes. Starting with a 3-view drawing, this process can be used to render the airplane from any point of view the artist chooses.